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To the Editor The study by Reger et al1 published in JAMA Psychiatry reported that deployment history was not associated with suicide death among military personnel who had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Their results converge with several previously published studies2,3 but contradict findings...

This survey of Vietnam war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms who underwent a similar assessment 25 years ago suggests that symptoms remain during the 4 decades after the war and that more than twice as many experience deterioration of symptoms compared with improvement.

It has been 40 years since the Vietnam War ended but about 271,000 veterans who served in the war zone are estimated to currently have full PTSD plus subthreshold war-zone PTSD and more than one-third have current major depressive disorder. http://ja.ma/1JfrABi﻿

In Reply We are grateful for Dr Bryan’s careful consideration of our article.1 His analysis was helpful in summarizing and emphasizing some points from our article. It was unclear whether he felt deployment history should not have been used as an exposure variable in our study or whether he...

Suicide evokes the image of a lonely, hopeless, deeply distressed person—nearly 80% are men—often influenced by alcohol or drugs, taking their lives following losses or disruptive life experiences. Younger persons’ suicides may be less contemplated but typically just as lonely and disconnected....

The neuropsychiatric impact of World War I, World War II, and the Korean War was described in terms such as shell shock, neurasthenia, psychoneurosis, and battle fatigue. For the Vietnam generation, readjustment problems were initially attributed to alcohol or substance use, followed by growing...

JAMA Psychiatry is an international, peer-reviewed journal published
weekly online and monthly in print. JAMA Psychiatry was published
originally in 1919 as the Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, which
in 1959 became 2 separate journals: Archives of Neurology and Archives
of General Psychiatry. In 2013, Archives of Neurology and Archives of
General Psychiatry became JAMA Neurology and JAMA Psychiatry
respectively.

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